ESA is actively working with China with the goal of placing a European astronaut on the Chinese space station as part of a relationship that is likely to grow now that ESA governments have made China one of three long-term strategic partners for the agency.
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Letter | Bold, Meaningful Missions Only Way To Re-engage Public
For our space manned missions in particular, general disinterest reigns.
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SpaceNews 2014 Year in Review
SpaceNews summarizes some of the highlights and lowlights of the year now coming to a close.
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Op-ed | The Opportunity for Bipartisan Planetary Exploration
Buried within the landscape of U.S. partisan conflict lies a wellspring of bipartisan potential that could ignite a new bipartisan era of planetary exploration.
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ESA and Omega: a Watch for Astronauts
Swiss watchmaker Omega has announced a new version of its historic space watch, tested and qualified with ESA’s help and drawing on a patent from ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy. Jean-François […]
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Comet landing named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year
The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for 2014. From a shortlist of 10 highly commended breakthroughs, […]
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ESA Director Dordain Named 2015 Recipient of General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
The Board of Directors of the Space Foundation has unanimously selected Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), as the 2015 recipient of its highest honor — […]
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First Results of the ROSINA Instrument
First measurements by the Rosetta mission’s ROSINA instrument show that the deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratio of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is highly enriched in deuterium. These results contradict the theory that the […]
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HEICO Corporation Subsidiaries Supply Hardware for Orion Program
HEICO Corporation (NYSE:HEI.A) (HEI) today reported that two of its subsidiaries supplied High-Reliability electronic products for NASA’s Orion program. Orion was successfully launched into space and was then successfully recovered at […]
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New Images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
This four-image montage comprises images taken on 26 November from a distance of 30.1 km from the centre of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image resolution is 2.4 m/pixel so each original 1024 […]
